Foodborne Diseases
Table 1: Common Foodborne Diseases
Foodborne Commonly Responsible Symptoms Prevention
Illness Affected Foods Microorganism Strategies
Salmonellosis Undercooked Salmonella spp. Diarrhea, fever, Cooking food
poultry, raw stomach thoroughly,
eggs, cramps, nausea, maintaining
unpasteurized and vomiting hygiene,
dairy, preventing
contaminated cross-
produce contamination
Listeriosis Soft cheeses, Listeria Fever, muscle Proper
deli meats, raw monocytogenes aches, nausea, refrigeration,
sprouts, diarrhea, risks thorough
unpasteurized during cooking,
dairy products pregnancy avoiding high-
risk foods for
pregnant
women
E. coli Infection Raw or Escherichia coli Severe diarrhea Cooking meat
undercooked (E. coli) (sometimes properly,
beef, O157:H7 bloody), avoiding raw
unpasteurized abdominal milk, washing
dairy and cramps, kidney produce
juices, complications thoroughly
contaminated
vegetables
Botulism Improperly Clostridium Blurred vision, Following safe
preserved botulinum difficulty food
foods, swallowing, preservation
fermented fish, muscle methods,
honey (for paralysis, avoiding honey
infants) respiratory for infants
issues under one year
Norovirus Contaminated Norovirus Vomiting, Frequent
Infection water, raw diarrhea, handwashing,
seafood, ready- nausea, proper food
to-eat meals stomach pain handling,
disinfecting
surfaces
Hepatitis A Raw shellfish, Hepatitis A Yellowing of Getting
untreated virus the skin vaccinated,
water, fresh (jaundice), maintaining
produce fever, tiredness, sanitation,
nausea, handling food
stomach pain safely
Table 2: Additional Foodborne Diseases
Foodborne Commonly Responsible Symptoms Prevention
Illness Affected Foods Microorganism Strategies
Campylobacteri Raw or Campylobacter Diarrhea Cooking poultry
osis undercooked jejuni (sometimes thoroughly,
poultry, bloody), fever, avoiding raw
unpasteurized stomach milk, practicing
milk, cramps, nausea, good hygiene
contaminated vomiting
water
Shigellosis Contaminated Shigella spp. Severe diarrhea Handwashing,
(Bacillary water, raw (sometimes safe water
Dysentery) vegetables, with blood), sources, proper
salads, dairy fever, stomach food handling
products pain,
dehydration
Clostridium Meat dishes, Clostridium Abdominal Keeping food at
Perfringens gravies, stews, perfringens cramps, safe
Food Poisoning foods left at diarrhea, temperatures,
unsafe nausea (rarely reheating food
temperatures fever or properly
vomiting)
Staphylococcal Cream-filled Staphylococcus Rapid onset of Proper hand
Food Poisoning pastries, salads, aureus nausea, hygiene, safe
dairy products, vomiting, food storage,
processed stomach avoiding food
meats cramps, contamination
diarrhea
Cholera Contaminated Vibrio cholerae Profuse watery Drinking safe
water, raw diarrhea, water, cooking
shellfish, street dehydration, food
food in weakness, low thoroughly,
unsanitary blood pressure good sanitation
conditions
Toxoplasmosis Undercooked Toxoplasma Flu-like Cooking meat
meat, gondii symptoms, properly,
contaminated (parasite) muscle aches, washing
water, fever, produce,
unwashed complications avoiding
fruits and in pregnancy contact with
vegetables contaminated
soil
